India matters now and will matter still more in future. It is a democracy; its economy is fast growing; and it will soon be the most populous country in the world. Westerners should passionately desire India to be a successful model of democratic and market-led development. An important question then is whether the government of Narendra Modi, in office since May 2014, has made a decisive difference to India’s economic trajectory. The evidence is: not yet. But the reforms it has introduced might make a more noticeable difference in the years ahead.
印度現(xiàn)在很重要，將來(lái)還會(huì)更重要。印度是一個(gè)民主國(guó)家，其經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展迅速；而且它將很快成為世界上人口最多的國(guó)家。西方人應(yīng)該熱切希望印度成為民主和市場(chǎng)主導(dǎo)型發(fā)展的成功模板。那么重要問(wèn)題是，2014年5月上臺(tái)的納倫德拉?莫迪(Narendra Modi)政府是否已經(jīng)對(duì)印度的經(jīng)濟(jì)軌跡產(chǎn)生了決定性的作用。證據(jù)顯示：還沒(méi)有。但是，該政府所推行的改革可能會(huì)在未來(lái)數(shù)年產(chǎn)生顯著影響。